Nigeria: Destitute victims of forced eviction must be adequately compensated

Headline Title: Nigeria: Destitute victims of forced eviction must be adequately compensated 19 August 2014 The World Bank endorsed the Lagos state government’s inadequate compensation package for thousands of people forcibly evicted from an informal settlement, Amnesty International said in a report published today. The report, At the mercy of the government, finds that the residents of Badia East whose homes were bulldozed on 23 February 2013, were not adequately compensated by the government for their losses and that the World Bank wrongly endorsed a compensation process that…

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